The Professor Kasin Suvatabhandhu Herbarium, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University is one of the oldest herbaria in Thailand. The herbarium was founded in 1960, but was officially opened to the general public on April 1 st , 1982. It was named in honour of Professor Kasin Suvatabhandhu, a faculty member of the Department of Botany, who had dedicated much of his life to plant taxonomic research.
At present, the Professor Kasin Suvatabhandhu Herbarium is listed under the code “BCU” in the Index Herbariorum, a global directory of 3,990 herbaria (as of September 2019). The code is used as a standard for referring to the institution and its specimens. The Herbarium has provided local and foreign students and researchers with plant identification, voucher specimen and specimen preparation services as well as information on plant species.